Bombshell Epstein Announcement: What Is The Truth? | Episode 79

27:33Dan Bongino:And after the execution of a search warrant of October, 2023, law enforcement recovered over a thousand media files consistent with child sex abuse materials on his electronic devices. And he wasn't alone. They got hundreds of these people. And it's also not the only operation to catch these child predators. There was also this one. 109 children were rescued and 244 child abusers were arrested in an Operation Soteria Shield this year, exposing widespread child exploitation in North Texas. Authorities calling it a successful roundup of child sex offenders. And it also showed how widespread the crime is in North Texas.

28:14Dan Bongino:This is a CBS report on the subject. The Dallas FBI office and some of the 70 law enforcement agencies that participated announced the results of Operation Soteria Shield on Tuesday. This just came out recently. 244 men and women were charged with exploiting children for the purpose of sex trafficking or pornography. So there is definitely no shortage of effort within the Kash Patel, Dan Bongino-led FBI to go after child sexual predators. Hundreds of them are being rounded up. And in fact, one other big thing that I want to get to with you this morning as it relates to the FBI and the mission that those guys are on specifically.

28:56Dan Bongino:Dan and Cash have fired a lot of people. A lot of people in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. And in fact, this decision to fire everybody has become a gigantic, ridiculous New York Times hit piece this weekend that Dan was responding to. The New York Times has an editorial board piece up this week. Trump's politicized FBI has made Americans less safe, they claim. And then they put up some stupid graphic that they made to show that the FBI is collapsing and on and on and on. And what they start to go down is a series of this guy's been fired. That guy's been fired. Everybody keeps getting fired.

29:39Dan Bongino:And the concept, the basic concept of the New York Times piece is that that's a sign that Trump is politicizing the FBI. Now, you and I both know that that's ridiculous. Donald Trump was the victim of a politicized FBI. American patriots were victims of a politicized FBI. You got people like Mark Houck, just a great Christian father who's being attacked by FBI SWAT teams showing up to his house to place him under arrest for literally defending his son from a lunatic outside of an abortion mill. And this story just keeps going. All the Christians who were attacked, traditional Latin mass, people singing church hymns outside of these abortion mills.

30:17Dan Bongino:You get January 6th, people have had their lives upended, destroyed, many of whom have been driven to suicide. It's just been absolutely disgusting how weaponized that FBI has been. So mission one for the guys who are there is to depoliticize it. So that's what they're doing right now. And that includes going after people who are straight up connected to the people who did the worst things. There's a story that I want to bring to you. This is a guy. Yeah, I know. I do. I know I have my guest standing by. I'll get to him in just a moment. But I've got I've got this story about this fellow called Michael Feinberg.

30:59Dan Bongino:He just wrote an op ed bitching about the fact that he was driven out of the FBI by Dan Bongino. Feinberg, I want to just be really clear about who the hell he is. He was maintaining a personal friendship with Peter Strzok. He claims the only reason that he's been forced out is that he had a relationship with Peter Strzok, who, by the way, was a complete lunatic who abused his power. He hates Trump supporters. He hates Donald Trump. He was coordinating with Lisa Page to try and stop Trump. It's all crystal clear in the text messages that the two were firing off to each other. This Feinberg guy, he quit the FBI before they could polygraph him.

31:35Dan Bongino:They suspect him of something. They wanted to polygraph him. And he resigned his post before they could do that. That's the actual story. He's like running around telling this sob story. Oh, they forced me out. They got rid of me. He was so mean and now it's being politicized. Bullshit. This guy ran before they could polygraph him. And now he has a social media account on Blue Sky where he complains all the time about the FBI. Blue Sky? You want to... Okay, so if the goal was to try and convince this that you're some sort of nonpartisan actor, you're not doing it by skipping the polygraph and then going to Blue Sky to launch a Twitter account or a Blue Sky account rather about how much you hate Kash Patel and Dan Bongino and how they're actually politicizing the FBI.

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34:33Dan Bongino:I'm sure you're going to love them too. Use the code Vince at BoneCharge.com to save 15%. These statements and products have not been evaluated by the FDA. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. That's right. Okay. Joining us right now, Ryan Gerdusky is in the house. He's a great journalist, great writer, conservative activist, and all around good dude. Ryan, it's great to see you today, sir. Thanks for having me. Okay, so we got the big, beautiful bill signed into law this past week. What'd you make of that? It's a pretty big deal this thing finally got across the finish line.

35:13I think that there was a lot I didn't like in it. But at the end of the day, funding ICE to to have mass deportations was the most important thing. So as long as that got done and as long as the A.I. portion of the bill got scrapped, which it did, then I was fine with everything else. I didn't really care about all the other details. Funding ICE to the level that we are will actually allow for mass deportation and to undo Joe Biden's invasion of this country. And that's really all my priorities were about.

35:44Dan Bongino:For sure. And so the president was able to sign that thing on Friday, on Independence Day. Of course, fellas, if you could put up the video footage of the slow-mo of the White House flyover, look at this cut one, where you get the jets, the B-2 stealth bomber, the F-22s, the F-35s flying over. Look how awesome that is. That's incredible. And that's the most Trumpy thing I've ever seen. that, you know, only President Trump, for some reason, thinks we're deserving of cool flyovers like this. But we get that as the big, beautiful bill becomes law. Ryan, I also want to talk to you about, you know, the president gave remarks at the Iowa State Fairgrounds just ahead of passage here on Thursday night.

36:25Dan Bongino:He talked about this and he was great. He was celebrating the legislation. He was celebrating the country. But he did say at one point, he kind of tipped his hand that there is an effort to try and protect illegal immigrant farm workers and illegal immigrant hotel workers who, again, are in the country illegally right now. And he's got it seems like he's kind of gone back and forth about the way he's talked about this issue. Give us some insight in terms of what you make of it and what you're hearing. Yeah. So I've spoken to a couple people in and close to the administration. There's been a big effort on the part of the likes of Brooke Rollins and allegedly Kristi Noem, according to Trump in the speech, so that Kristi Noem was very much in favor of protecting illegal labor.

37:06And there's been outside. And Brooke, so people

37:08Dan Bongino:know, Brooke's the Brooke's the Ag Secretary. And Brooke is the Ag Secretary. She was in the first Trump White House. She was there because of her closest association with Jared Kushner. She has been a long advocate for amnesty for illegal aliens. She has supported it going back to 2010 in written word where she has written about why we should have an amnesty for illegal aliens. And she's considered part of the Jared coalition of, I guess, the Trump White House, even though he's not there. She she still is. That is concerning. But there's also been outside voices. I heard from someone recently that not only did Ivanka Trump sit there and say something, but Joe Rogan was on both on his podcast saying that it was wrong to sit there and have ice raids at construction sites and in farms.

37:53And that information leaked the president. And he apparently was having someone was having conversations with Joe Rogan about why you should we should prevent raids from going on in construction sites and farm labor. I got this from a very, very good source within the administration that this was that Rogan apparently had had an outsized influence in this decision making. Now, two things. One, I spoke to several congressmen about this and the Republican congressman, and they said they will outright not vote for any type of bill because Trump said there's any legislation, any bill that would support protecting illegal labor.

38:30Secondly, we have currently I mean, there's always stories in the news about rotting fruit in the field. We always have this rotting fruit in the fields. If we don't get an amnesty or endless supply of illegal labor to farmers, we currently have an agricultural visa that supplies hundreds of thousands of farm aid, farm workers to farmers in this country. The thing is, if you go through the visa process or the legal process, farmers have to provide both housing and transportation for the farm labor and some some level of medical safety, some levels of work standards and safety. If you go through the illegal, there's no there's no reason there's no protection for the laborers.

39:10And so who assumes the bills for the illegal aliens? It's many times the taxpayers. The taxpayers go and have to pay for them when they go to emergency rooms. Taxpayers have to pay for them through public transportation if there is any, if they're commuting from a small town. Taxpayers will have to sit there and accumulate a lot of the bills that would otherwise go to farmers. So farmers have an incentive to sit there and reward illegal labor. At this point, what the Trump administration should be doing is asking farmers to automate the business as much as possible. That's what every other developed country is doing is automating their agricultural workers.

39:48And we, for some reason, are depending on on cheap labor from from South America. Yeah.

39:54Dan Bongino:And also, it's fundamentally unfair. I don't know why. Why should certain categories or certain industries be allowed to break the law? Everyone should just be following it. So if I've been saying this from the very beginning, we have, as you just mentioned, a legal guest worker program. And if you truly can't find American citizens to do those jobs, we have a federal government program that you can rely on. But as you point out, that comes with stipulations like you actually have to pay people responsible wages. You have to provide housing for them. You've got to pay in order to make that work.

40:23Dan Bongino:And there are American farms to their great credit. I've seen the Merriweather Farms account talking about this a lot, that those guys have American employees. They work really hard to make sure that everyone who works for them is here legally. And they resent this idea that other farms, especially big ag farms, can get away with exploiting illegal labor at the expense of small American run farms. Right. And Brooke Rollins was doing an interview with Breitbart News maybe a month ago, and she complained that the agricultural visa pays farmers, pays farm farmworkers too much money. They pay them 20 to 30 dollars an hour and it's just too much money for many farmers.

41:00They have to go to illegal labor. I'm you know, that's not that much money, really. And if that is too much still, then there should be some kind of tax credit or something to automate those jobs. There is a robot to basically pick any kind of fruit, any kind of vegetable harvest, any kind of wheat or dairy that there is. And we wouldn't. And there's no problem then if that's too much money. They don't want to do that. Farmers would not want to sit there and have that expense, but it is necessary. Japan does not import hundreds of thousands of South Americans every year to pick rice patties. They have robots.

41:37It is time that farmers are expected to get to the 21st century technology and the 21st century economy and stop depending on cheap labor that they demand be cheaper all the time. One last thing, when there were raids on meat processing plants, not only did Americans take those jobs, but they got raises upon taking those jobs. So it is possible to sit there and make it profitable and hire only Americans to do those jobs and jobs you can't hire Americans. You can go through the legal visa system or automate those jobs.

42:08Dan Bongino:Yeah, it just strikes me that there's all sorts of ways to get this under control and workplace enforcement is an obvious one. All of the immigration experts and And guests that we've had to include people like the Borders are Tom Homan and the head of ICE, Todd Lyons. I've asked repeatedly about workplace enforcement. These guys say not only is it going on, but that they're going to be ramping it up. And God willing, they do, Ryan Gerdusky, because the more we have workplace enforcement, the less we're going to have to worry about chasing down illegal immigrants to begin with, because we just have to cut off the magnets that draw people to invade the country in the first place.

42:45it's it's been done before not only in our own country but in other countries it's not rocket science and to have self-deportation right the best way to avoid having to deport illegal aliens and spending all the money is one them not coming here to begin with the second is to have self-deportation stop rewarding illegal behavior stop giving them access to welfare um and medicaid and all the rest of it stop um stop allowing them to have uh in-state tuition for colleges or access to jobs or stop not taxing the remittances they send to other countries. Those are very easy things that federal government can do before we have to go looking for them, either in rural communities or urban communities or somewhere in between.

43:31That is the easiest, number one easiest thing to do. And every time you sit there and say anyone, the president, a part of the administration, a member of a congressman of the Senate says, we're going to figure out a carve out for this group or that group. Cartel members and human smugglers immediately go tell the populations it's OK to come now. They're going to not enforce it. They understand the laws and the communications that members of Congress and the White House sends better than anybody else. And they prey on well-intentioned but very poor people to sit there and use that as a method to get to the United States.

44:07Dan Bongino:Yeah, I'm just for supporting Americans and not exploiting people by importing them into the country and taking advantage of them. I think every American's for this basic principle. And one of the great things I like about the right is that we're willing to engage in honest debates about what makes the country better. And Ryan, thank you always for contributing to that. I appreciate you. Absolutely. Thank you. Good to talk to you today. It's Ryan Gerdusky with a sharp take on all of this. It's a very simple thing. You come in illegally, you should face the consequences of being deported. And if we need people to come into the country in any capacity to assist us in making this country great and productive, then we have to do it through legal means.

44:47Dan Bongino:That's the most basic thing imaginable. And we should do things the right way. So hopefully the White House hears this message, hears this conversation and considers it. Because the cool thing about this White House is they do actually, they do pay attention to what you have to say on this subject. Okay. Speaking of immigration enforcement, a couple of quick things I need to hit. I've got a lot. We've got the flooding in Texas I still want to talk about. The left is just being so callous with all of this and really, really disgusting. But while we were talking with Ryan just now, live this morning in the 10 o 'clock hour Eastern time, we just got breaking news out of Bill Malusian of the Fox News Channel.

45:28Dan Bongino:He writes on X that three federal and Texas law enforcement sources are telling him that an active shooter with a rifle and tactical gear ambushed Border Patrol agents as they arrived at a Border Patrol annex facility in McAllen, Texas this morning. Local police and federal agents returned fire, killing him. Bill says he was told this was a purposeful ambush and attack against federal agents. And there's going to be a press conference on this subject later this morning, Monday morning. No federal agents are injured. A McAllen police officer may have been shot, but is in stable condition. So a shooting directed at a border patrol facility, a purposeful ambush attack against federal agents.

46:16Dan Bongino:This is not the only one. Okay. So we get this report this morning from McAllen, but I also want to share with you that we have other reports like this over the weekend. um here we go here is cut to take a look at this portland oregon a left-wing mob tried to storm an immigration and customs enforcement facility in portland look at this post-millennial with the footage here there's absolute chaos in the streets of portland once again this is typical Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, these left wing cities where lefties are inspired to attack immigration and customs enforcement officials and officers by Democrats who constantly say that the guys who are doing the job of protecting our country, getting the invaders out, they're saying that that's they're the equivalent of the Gestapo, that they're Nazis.

47:13Dan Bongino:So we had an attack in Portland this weekend. Again, that's not the only one as well. There was another armed mob that opened fire on a cop outside of a Texas ICE facility this weekend. Multiple suspects were placed into custody. A Texas police officer was shot in the neck late Thursday night. This would be going into Independence Day during an apparent coordinated attack outside of an ICE detention Center, according to cops, authorities. Just before 11 p.m. on Thursday, officers from the Alvarado Police Department responded to reports of a suspicious person near the Prairieland ice detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, according to CBS.

47:57Dan Bongino:Upon arrival, officers encountered what appeared to be an armed individual, and when one officer attempted to engage, several suspects, a mob of people allegedly opened fire and struck the officer in the neck, the police say. So this is now over the course of just the last few days. What have I been saying on this subject? That the left is going to get an ICE officer killed. And it looks like right now that also includes anybody else who's assisting ICE, local police, United States Marines. You have these Department of Homeland Security personnel who are all on the front lines trying to bring these illegals into custody, and lefties are leading attacks on them.

48:41Dan Bongino:Lefties are leading attacks on them. And just in the last few days, since Thursday night, we've seen three really dramatic ambushes and attacks, including, as we speak this morning, out of McAllen, Texas. We'll keep our eyes on any developments that come out of that and bring you updates again as we get them. But this is as disgraceful as it can possibly get. Disgraceful. Speaking of disgraceful, the left's reaction to the flooding in Texas this weekend. Let me see if I can pull up the latest on this subject. It has has been absolutely awful. The death toll in central Texas from the flash floods going into July 4th has now risen to 82 people dead.

49:26Dan Bongino:And a local sheriff says that 10 of the campers who we've all been tracking this weekend remain missing. Families have been sifting through the waterlogged debris on Sunday, the Associated Press reports, and stepped inside of empty cabins at Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer camp, ripped apart by flash floods that washed homes off of their foundations and killed at least 82 people in central Texas. Rescuers have been navigating very challenging terrain, they say, looking for survivors in all of this. They say that they have found the bodies of some 28 children, 28 children. Remember, this county, Kerr County, and as you're watching the video podcast right now, You can see how quickly the water levels rose over the course of just about 45 minutes.

50:13Dan Bongino:Shocking how quickly this water level just went absolutely crazy and how quickly it came upon everybody. 28 children's bodies have been found so far, and the death toll is only rising. The missing continue to be the pressing concern here. We did see some reports that at least two children were found alive clinging to a tree, which is good news that they were able to be found and rescued. We also saw stories of a father who was inside of a mobile home with his family. And as the water was pouring into their mobile home, tried to basically create some space for the water to escape so they could continue to breathe.

50:54Dan Bongino:He punched a hole in the glass window of the room that they were contained in. And when he did, he severed a massive part of his arm, cutting into his artery, and he bled out in that room, passing away in his attempt to save his family. Just absolutely brutal. Not something to be politicized, not something to be exploited to try and hurt President Trump because you don't like him, but that's what the left has been doing this weekend. It's just been both predictable and awful. You know, I say this all the time. It's not shocking, but it is appalling. For example, here's George Stephanopoulos this weekend, cut six, mindlessly repeating a lie that the National Weather Service under the Trump administration failed the people of Texas.

51:47Dan Bongino:Take a look. We're also learning that there were significant staffing shortfalls of the National Weather Service's offices in the region. You know, George, as of right now, the local county officials really didn't want to address that just yet. What they are telling us is they expected between four and six inches of rain. That is what weather experts told them, the National Weather Service as well. They also knew that in remote locations, they might get anywhere from eight to ten inches. But this amount of rain in such a short amount of time, it was very difficult to navigate. And when the Department of Homeland Security secretary was here just yesterday, she acknowledged this was an issue.

52:25She was going to take these concerns to the White House as well and try and see if there was anything they could do to revamp the system. She says the president is committed to it.

52:35Dan Bongino:Of course, the president is committed to the well-being and safety of Americans and making sure that every early alert system is working. And here's the reality. You heard George Stephanopoulos just a moment ago say that the National Weather Service in Texas was short-staffed. They didn't have enough people that the warnings weren't able to go out. And as a result, so many people have died. That's what he's saying. And that's a lie. That is a lie. The Associated Press has a report on this subject this weekend. The Weather Service had extra staffers. The National Weather Service office in New Braunfels, which delivers forecasts for Austin, San Antonio and the surrounding areas, had extra staff on duty during the storm, where the office would typically have had two forecasters on duty during clear weather.

53:21Dan Bongino:They had up to five on staff. There were extra people in here that night. And that's typical in every weather service office. You staff up for an event and you bring people in on overtime and you hold people over. In other words, Stephanopoulos, who's already had to settle a lawsuit for defaming President Trump is up to his old tricks again. The old Clinton staffer is doing it again. The Democrat political operative is doing it again. He's lying in an effort to stand on the graves of dead children and attack the president of the United States. What a complete disgrace. What a complete disgrace.

54:12Dan Bongino:And the lessons here, by the way, are really clear. I mean, the actual sequence of events here, really clear how everything went down. This whole thing is nuts. You know, Chris Martz is a meteorologist, and he was responding to the lefty claims. You know, lefties have been claiming that, again, President Trump caused the devastation here by not warning people in advance. Chris Martz, meteorologist, says the following on X this weekend. This is bullshit, he says, talking to the left, people like George Stephanopoulos. NOAA's National Weather Service office in Austin and San Antonio issued a flood watch over 12 hours before the flood, over 12 hours before the flood, and a flash flood warning three hours in advance.

55:02Dan Bongino:Find a new job, he told the lefty he's talking to here. Your political analysis skills suck. And he posts the National Weather Service alerts here. So you can see the flash flood warnings for the counties, for northwestern Bandera County in South Central Texas, for central Kerr County in South Central Texas. How long that this warning is going to last? How quickly this thing is coming on? And it's not just Chris Martz. It's lefty meteorologists. people all across the political spectrum who are in some cases begrudgingly admitting, yes, the National Weather Service got it right. No, they weren't really at fault at all.

55:45Dan Bongino:Yes, they sent out the early alerts. Yes, they had people, they had extra staff working the storm as is tradition. And no, President Trump or his administration are not to be blamed. But it's not stopping the left. They're still doing it this morning as we speak, trying to politicize all of this. Now, this is the same party that when they ran emergency response, when they ran FEMA, guess what they did? Well, they didn't go to the homes of people who had Trump signs outside. They actively skipped homes of Trump supporters during needed emergency relief in the southeast United States. That's what really happened.

56:26Dan Bongino:Or when a train carrying toxic chemicals derails in East Palestine, Ohio, the Biden administration can barely be bothered to even mention the place. and eventually they send one of their most pathetic cabinet secretaries to go visit the scene wearing a freshly purchased helmet and vest, Pete Boot edge edge, so that they can merely pretend like they had some sort of intense interest in an area that very clearly voted for President Trump and will probably vote for people like President Trump for the rest of our lives. They weren't that interested in responding there. Meanwhile, the president declared an emergency, a disaster immediately for the people of Texas.

57:14Dan Bongino:DHS has been actively involved in assisting the people of Texas and those efforts continue this morning. They really do. I'm glad you're here with me. We really do have the best damn audience in media. I appreciate our conversations. You guys are very good. And I've got a big radio show coming up today, 12 to 3 Eastern time. You can listen to that. Find it on thevincshow.com. You can listen there. You just go where to listen for your radio station or come here at rumble.com slash Vince, and you can watch me do this program live. Thanks as always for being with me today.

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